Dr. Walsh ,'Potential'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, pandas, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Fimble-Famble. A lame, prevaricating excuse.
I am totally incorporating this into my vocabulary. It sounds like something Mr. Burns would say.
Snotter, or Wipe-hauler. A pickpocket whose chief fancy is for gentlemen's pocket-handkerchiefs.
This...is quite a specialized form of pickpocketry, isn't it?
yes. absolutely.
So...
is it a legitimate use of a sick day to stay home because you're covered with hives from a bad reaction to anti-biotics?
I don't feel sick, I just... itch.
Good god, yes! Plus, if you take Benadryl for the hives, it might make you exceptionally sleepy.
Today in Chicago, the day is exactly as long as the night. (Whether this is true for you depends on your latitude.) Tomorrow our high is supposed to be 70. Spring begins on Saturday. On Sunday, the high is 36, and the forecast is:
Good chance of wet snow or a snow/rain mix trending to all snow before diminishing to flurries or sprinkles late. Blustery and colder. North winds 12 to 24 mph.
Boo Sunday.
if you take Benadryl for the hives, it might make you exceptionally sleepy.
Good point, although I'm out of Benedryl, will have to walk to Walgreens for more.
It's a bit of a drag, since this means I now have two categories of antibiotics I can't take. Very annoying.
It's a bit of a drag, since this means I now have two categories of antibiotics I can't take. Very annoying.
I have about 3. Penicillins and sulfa drugs, because they have cross-reactivity, and the fucking fluoroquinolones, not because I'm allergic, but because they will FUCK YOU UP big time.
So I have the penicillins and the sulfa drugs now (the sulfa drugs are new); guess I can look forward to more? Joy.
K is allergic to sulfa drugs. It's nasty.
I took them for a week and a half without a reaction, and then last night I started scratching madly in my sleep. Didn't even realize until I started getting dressed. Lovely!
guess I can look forward to more?
Not necessarily. Like I said, I shouldn't call the fluoroquinolone thing an allergy, because it isn't -- it's just that the side effects are badass (tendon rupture being the most notable -- and increasingly common -- one).
The fluoroquinolones are Cipro, Avelox, and Levaquin; they're effective as hell because they're broad-spectrum. And if my life were in danger, I would definitely take them, and deal with the side effects later. I'd rather be alive with screwed-up tendons than dead. But I had a doctor prescribe Cipro for an ear infection, and it jacked my tendons up for about 6 weeks. Never again.